New book could have ‘profound implications’ for pro-life movement

Washington D.C., May 17, 2005 / 12:00 am (CNA).- A new book promises to address the important question posed by the pro-life movement’s support for restrictive or “incremental” abortion legislation.

Colin Harte’s book, entitled “Changing Unjust Laws Justly: Pro-Life Solidarity with ‘the Last and Least’”, could have “profound implications” for the pro-life movement and the way in which it functions, stated a press release.

The main question the book attempts to answer is: What types of legal changes the pro-life movement support if it is not possible to overturn the abortion law altogether?

In the 1980s, the author was a committed campaigner within the pro-life movement for legislation to restrict abortion. Harte now argues that there is a fundamental moral problem in supporting laws that grant protection to some unborn children while denying it to others.